[ec2-beta] EC2 tools in most recent official Ubuntu AMIs
Dav Clark
dav at alum.mit.edu
Wed May 6 22:43:10 BST 2009
Hi,
I'm trying to bundle an image with a variety of specialized (painful /
slow to install) software for brain imaging research.
I tried creating and uploading a bundle using the instructions here:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/index.html?creating-an-image.html
This was based on the most recent canonical 32-bit 8.10 / intrepid
images (ami-5059be39, aka canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-intrepid-20090422-
i386.manifest.xml).
Creating the image and uploading the bundle appeared to go fine.
However, there was nothing like an ec2-register command. No problem,
I thought, I'll just use the ec2 tools on my machine in lab. But still,
BUG 1: ec2 tools on the canonical images are out of date / incomplete
Note - they are using the ruby versions... I don't know if the lack of
ec2-register is a ruby thing or what. ec2-ami-tools-version on the
canonical image yields:
1.3-31057 20071010
Moving along...
There appears to be some sort of strange permission problem using ec2-
register from my home machine. With the permissions left as they
were, I get a 403 error trying to access my manifest. But I don't
understand why:
- I am absolutely sure I used the same pk and cert files (I uploaded
them from the machine in lab that I'm now trying to use the ec2-
register command from)
- I updated to the most recent EC2 tools (1.3-34128 2009-03-01), and
also tried 1.3-30349
- i am able to launch ec2 instances, for example, with no problem
- za-team has read access to everything, my account has full access
to everything
- If I make everything readable to "authenticated users" I get the
following 404:
Client.InvalidManifest: HTTP 404 (Not Found) response for URL http://s3.amazonaws.com:80/cognac-public/CognAcAMI.manifext.xml
: check your manifest path is correct and in the correct region.
I also was able to find a link in an amazon developer forum to the
31057 version of the tools. But, there is no mention of these tools
on the amazon website:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=87
I think I am missing something fundamental here... is there some old
way of booting an AMI that I don't know about? The old docs on
bundling seem to have evaporated...
Thanks!
Dav
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